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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds. Birds of prey look cool, but they can’t count.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. With a six-figure population now, Cackling Geese are an abundant visitor the west coast and the Aleutians.

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